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  • HIDDEN PORTRAITS
    HIDDEN PORTRAITS
    SUE ROE
    Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Therese Walter, Dora Maar, Francoise Gilot, and Jacqueline Roque. These six extraordinary women shared Pablo Picasso's life and were instrumental in his career, yet they have long been dismissed as simply passive models or muses. Hidden Portraits reveals that their lives were - without exception - remarkable. All six were unconventional,...
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  • GHOSTS OF PASSION
    GHOSTS OF PASSION
    BRIAN D. BUNK
    The question of what caused the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) is the central focus of modern Spanish historiography. In Ghosts of Passion, Brian D. Bunk argues that propaganda related to the revolution of October 1934 triggered the broader conflict by accentuating existing social tensions surrounding religion and gender. Through careful analysis of the images produced in books, n...
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    26,25 €

  • SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER AND OTHER PLAYS
    SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER AND OTHER PLAYS
    TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
    These three dramatic works by Tennessee Williams explore the darker side of human nature and are haunted by a sense of isolation and regret. ...
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    13,75 €

  • WHERE THE HEART SHOULD BE
    WHERE THE HEART SHOULD BE
    SARAH CROSSAN
    'A beautiful, perfect, moving read' - Cecelia Ahern, author of PS, I Love You The outstanding novel from the Carnegie Medal-winning, former Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan; thought-provoking and moving, it explores love and family during The Great Hunger. Ireland, 1846. Nell is working as a scullery maid in the kitchen of the Big House. Once she loved school and books and dreami...
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    11,25 €

  • YOURS TRULY
    YOURS TRULY
    ABBY JIMENEZ
    A novel of terrible first impressions, hilarious second chances and the joy in finding the perfect match from 'a true talent' (EMILY HENRY). Readers are absolutely loving Yours Truly! 'Literally the best book I ever read' ? ? ? ? ? 'This author has blown me away before but this book . . . I can't even. I will need some serious time to recover. It was everything and more' ? ?...
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    13,75 €

  • LOVE LETTERS: VITA AND VIRGINIA
    LOVE LETTERS: VITA AND VIRGINIA
    VITA SACKVILLE-WEST / VIRGINIA WOOLF
    Delve into a legendary literary love affair'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you...'At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in her diary that she didn't think m...
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    16,25 €

  • TOPDOG/UNDERDOG
    TOPDOG/UNDERDOG
    SUZAN-LORI PARKS
    A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Suzan-Lori Parks' play Topdog/Underdog tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of th...
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    13,75 €

  • WISTERIA
    WISTERIA
    ADALYN GRACE
    Headstrong and passionate, she won't be ruled by society, or by her overprotective father, and certainly not by the man she's bound herself to, no matter how insufferable he is. She's determined to be a thorn in his side for the rest of her days, even as he ensues that her life in his palace is anything but the decadent fairytale she imagined. But as Blythe discovers a new side...
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    18,75 €

  • A JOURNEY THROUGH ART
    A JOURNEY THROUGH ART
    AARON ROSEN
    A child's introduction to art history through the centuries and across the globeA Journey Through Art is a global history of art with a time- travel twist, taking young readers on a expedition from the Paleolithic period to the present day, voyaging to thirty locations around the world. As readers travel from one incredible destination to the next, they discover the amazing net...
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    18,65 €

  • AT THE EDGE OF EMPIRE
    AT THE EDGE OF EMPIRE
    EDWARD WONG
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING'A brilliant personal account of China's borderlands and peoples' Francis Fukuyama'Edward Wong is about as knowledgeable a guide to China as a reader could ever hope to find' Barbara DemickIn 1962, Edward Wong's father, disillusioned with Communism, fled China for Hong Kong and later the USA. From then on, he rarely spoke of...
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    16,25 €

  • THE HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA
    THE HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA
    T. J. KLUNE
    'I loved it. It is like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket. Simply perfect' - V. E. Schwab, Sunday Times bestselling author of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil A cosy, enchanting story about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place. The House in the Cerulean Sea is an uplifting, heart-warming queer fantasy from TJ Klune, a Sunday T...
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    13,75 €

  • OPERATION BOUNCE HOUSE
    OPERATION BOUNCE HOUSE
    MATT DINNIMAN
    From the author of the sensational global bestselling Dungeon Crawler Carl series comes a brand new epic standalone . . . All colonist Oliver Lewis ever wanted to do is run the family ranch and keep his family's aging fleet of intelligent agriculture bots ticking. But when his planet's transfer gate finally opens and restores instant travel and full communication between Earth...
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    21,25 €

  • EARTH
    EARTH
    JOHN BOYNE
    It's the tabloid sensation of the year- two well-known footballers standing in the dock, charged with sexual assault, a series of vile text messages pointing towards their guilt. As the trial unfolds, Evan Keogh reflects on the events that have led him to this moment. Since leaving his island home, his life has been a lie on many levels. He's a talented footballer who wanted t...
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    16,25 €

  • BAD BAD GIRL
    BAD BAD GIRL
    GISH JEN
    Growing up in 1920s Shanghai, Gish Jen's mother was told every day it was 'no good for a girl be too smart' -a silencing message she attempts to escape yet brings with her to New York. In this riveting portrayal of a Chinese woman desiring emancipation but also control, Gish Jen gives us a heartbreaking mother-daughter relationship, saved by writing.[Bokinfo]. ...
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    23,75 €

  • JINX
    JINX
    ABIGAIL PARRY
    Jinx: A ruinous charm, a quickdraw curse, a knight's move. Abigail Parry's first collection is concerned with spells, and ersatz spells: with semblance and sleight-of-hand. It takes its formal cues from moth-camouflage and stage magic, from the mirror-maze and the masquerade, and from high-stakes games of poker. Jinx asks about the equivocal nature of artifice, and the real mis...
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    12,50 €

  • A SIMPLE HEART
    A SIMPLE HEART
    GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
    'She decided she would teach him to speak and he was very soon able to say, 'Pretty boy ', 'Your servant, sir ' and 'Hail Mary '' With pathos and humour, Flaubert imagines the unexamined life of a servant girl. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books fro...
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    5,00 €

  • DAISY HAITES
    DAISY HAITES
    JESSA HASTINGS
    All 20-year-old Daisy Haites has ever wanted is a normal life, but as the heiress to London's most notorious criminal empire, it's just not on the cards for her. Raised by her older brother Julian since their parents were murdered, Daisy has never been able to escape the watchful gaze of her gang-lord brother. But Julian's line of work means that Daisy's life is... complicated...
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    18,75 €

  • CURSED
    CURSED
    MARISSA MEYER
    It isn't true, she wanted to whisper. To lean forward and nuzzle her cheek against his temple. To press him against the wall and mold her body to his. I am not his. I will never be his. Serilda and Gild cannot break the curses that tether their spirits to Adalheid's haunted castle. There they remain trapped for eternity. On the night of the Endless Moon, the Erlking means to ca...
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  • THE EARLY STORIES OF TRUMAN CAPOTE
    THE EARLY STORIES OF TRUMAN CAPOTE
    TRUMAN CAPOTE
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    12,50 €

  • MERCIES
    MERCIES
    ANNE SEXTON
    The ground-breaking work of the poet who paved the way for generations of women writers, in a new selection by her daugher and literary executor, Linda Gray Sexton When Anne Sexton took her own life in October 1974, she left behind a body of work which had already, in less than two decades of writing, won her the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, established her as one of the foremost...
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    16,25 €

  • LONELY PLANET JOURNEY CAMINO DE SANTIAGO
    LONELY PLANET JOURNEY CAMINO DE SANTIAGO
    MARK EVELEIGH / NARINA EXELBY / ANNA KAMINSKI / RICHARD KIECKHIEFER / OLIVER SMITH / JOSH WEST / MELISSA YEAGER
    Lonely Planet's JourneyCamino de Santiago: the Camino Frances is the definitive guide to one of the world's great adventures - bringing you closer to the culture, history and landscapes you'll encounter along the way.Get inspiration, ideas and planning tips from our experts who have walked every step to uncover unique experiences you can make all your own. Have the best Spanish...
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    22,50 €

  • MR. STRONG
    MR. STRONG
    ROGER HARGREAVES
    The bestselling children's books series for over 50 years! This is the story of Mr Strong. Mr Strong is the strongest person in the whole wide world. The strongest person there has ever been, and probably the strongest person there will ever be... The Mr Men and Little Miss have been delighting children for generations with their charming and funny antics. Bold illustrations an...
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    6,25 €

  • THE CHILDREN OF JOCASTA
    THE CHILDREN OF JOCASTA
    NATALIE HAYNES
    "[A] dark, elegant novel" of two women in ancient Greece, based on the great tragedies of Sophocles (Publishers Weekly). Thebes is a city in mourning, still reeling from a devastating plague that invaded every home and left the survivors devastated and fearful. This is the Thebes that Jocasta has known her entire life, a city ruled by a king--her husband-to-be.Jocasta struggles...
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    12,50 €

  • THE GREAT RECESSION
    THE GREAT RECESSION
    CARLES MANERA
    This book analyzes the major economic crisis that began in 2007/08 and continues into 2013. Author Carles Manera explains that it is not just a financial crisis, caused primarily by the banking sector as many commentators claim, but a systemic crisis caused in part by overproduction, falls in business profits, environmental problems, and a stubborn insistence by political and m...
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    29,95 €

  • PARTITION
    PARTITION
    BARNEY WHITE-SPUNNER
    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Stands out for its judicious and unsparing look at events from a British perspective' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times Between January and August 1947 the conflicting political, religious and social tensions in India culminated in independence from Britain and the creation of Pakistan; in Partition, Barney White-Spunner shines a light on those turbu...
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    13,75 €

  • FIFTH SUN
    FIFTH SUN
    CAMILLA TOWNSEND
    In November 1519, Hernando CortÃ(c)s walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. But the Native American...
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    23,10 €

  • FAMOUS FIVE GRAPHIC NOVEL: FIVE ON A TREASURE ISLAND
    FAMOUS FIVE GRAPHIC NOVEL: FIVE ON A TREASURE ISLAND
    ENID BLYTON
    The Famous Five told as a graphic novel for the first time ever. Ideal for anyone who loves Tintin, Asterix or Dogman. All the fun, danger and excitement of the original books, in a fast-paced format for fans old and new. Brilliantly retold, designed and illustrated by a talented father-and-son team of graphic novel experts. This superb new edition will capture the imagination...
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    11,25 €

  • FOODIE CITY BREAKS: EUROPE
    FOODIE CITY BREAKS: EUROPE
    RICHARD MELLOR
    A gourmet, bite-sized guide to 25 of the best cities in Europe to be a foodie in. If you are planning a European vacation, you need this gourmet, bite-sized guide to 25 of the best cities for foodies to visit. Want to know the best brunch spot in Berlin, where you can sample the finest pintxos in San Sebastian, or fancy tucking into the tastiest dishes in Copenhagen - Europe's ...
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    12,50 €

  • THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS
    THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS
    ARUNDHATI ROY
    FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOD OF SMALL THINGSLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE 2018 THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE and THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'At magic hour; when the sun has gone but the light has not, armie...
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    13,75 €

  • THE REBEL WITCH
    THE REBEL WITCH
    KRISTEN CICCARELLI
    The highly anticipated sequel to The Crimson Moth ??. A WITCH... Rune Winters is on the run. Ever since the boy she loved, Gideon Sharpe, revealed who she was and delivered her into enemy hands, everyone wants her dead. If Rune hopes to survive, she must ally herself with the cruel and dangerous Cressida Roseblood, who's planning to take back the Republic and reinstate a Reign ...
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    18,75 €